Robin Hood: Shifting Riches Slot Review

Bonus Features in Robin Hood: Shifting Riches

The Robin Hood: Shifting Riches slot comes with 3 bonus features – firstly you have the Shifting Reels feature where you can get another chance to win. As a result, the multiplier increases up to 5x. The Money Bags feature sees Money Bag symbols collected which will lead to the Free Spins feature. Once in, you’ll get an extra wild symbol with the shifting reels mechanic giving you multipliers up to 5x.

Shifting Reels feature

Robin Hood Shifting Riches was the first game to use the Shifting Reels feature – reels shift after a winning combination is created which gives you another chance to win. The reels will carry on ‘shifting’ to the right with each win. As a result, the multiplier goes up to 2x, then up to 3x and finally up to 5x. You could get infinite shifts in theory will all of them (from the 3^rd shift onwards) subject to the biggest 5x multiplier.

Money Bags feature

Look out for the Money Bag symbols – these are collected in the treasure chests under each reel, Once you’ve collected 4 Money Bags in a treasure chest, you will trigger the Free Spins feature. Money Bags in the treasure chests are saved for 1 year after your last game so you won’t lose your progress.

Free Spins feature

Once in the Free Spins feature, you need to click on the treasure cheat which will reveal the value of the bags collected. 1 of the characters will be chosen as an extra wild and you will start off with 10 free spins. The Shifting Reels feature applies meaning multipliers up to 5x are up for grabs for consecutive wins.

If you get 2 free spins symbols on reels 3, 4 and 5, you will be entitled to an additional 5 free spins. You will get an extra 10 free spins if you get 3 free spins symbols.

Robin Hood: Shifting Riches Slot Details & Wager Limits

Robin Hood: Shifting Riches takes place on a 5×3 grid with a total of 20 paylines. Winning combinations are formed by landing matching symbols on adjacent reels from left to right (starting from the first reel). You will need 3 or more matching symbols in most cases bar Robin Hood which you only need 2.

Available to play from 20p to £100 per spin, it caters to all pockets. It uses the standard Autoplay function found in all NetEnt slots where you can choose from 10 to 1,000 autospins. If you click on ‘Advanced Settings’, you can stop the Autoplay on any win, if you trigger the Free Spins feature, if a single win exceeds a chosen amount or if your balance increases/decreases by a chosen amount.

In terms of variance, the Robin Hood: Shifting Riches online slot is medium to high. This means plenty of smaller-sized wins with the occasional big winner. The maximum payout per spin is 5,260 x stake. This can be achieved with the 5x multiplier from the Shifting Reels feature.

Robin Hood: Shifting Riches RTP

The Robin Hood: Shifting Riches RTP is 96.8% – this is high for an online slot. The base game should give you the majority of your wins (76.9% RTP). The Free Spins feature giving you remaining wins (19.8% RTP). There’s hit frequency of 35.6% in the base game and 45.6% in the Free Spins feature.

Theme – take a walk in Sherwood Forest

With cartoon style graphics, the Robin Hood: Shifting Riches slot has an upbeat and triumphant soundtrack. Set in Sherwood Forest, symbols include A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. You’ll also see Robin Hood himself and his band of merry men (Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marion and the Guard).

Robin Hood is by far the most rewarding symbol with 2, 3 4 or 5 across a payline giving you 0.1, 0.75, 15 or 50 times your stake. There’s a Robin Hood logo wild symbol which substitutes for all symbols bar the money bag and free spins scatter.

Released originally in 2011, Robin Hood: Shifting Riches isn’t as sharp as newer slots but it retains a certain charm. I would say the theme is cinematic and even has an intro movie (something lost of most slots nowadays).

The original Robin Hood: Shifting Riches slot was only available to play on desktop devices – i.e. PCs and laptops. Re-released in 2020 using HTML5 technology, it can be played on mobile and tablet devices. Those using iOS, Android and Windows operating systems.

Robin Hood: Shifting Riches Review Summary – steal from the rich but keep it for yourself

The Robin Hood: Shifting Riches slot may have been released in 2011 but it’s still a very popular game for NetEnt. Available to play on mobile/tablet devices from March 2020, it will continue to prove popular – and for good reason.

With an RTP of 96.8%, the return is very good – in terms of variance, its medium to high. The most you can win 1,000 x stake on each spin or free spin (by filling the reels with the Robin Hood symbol). Now, add in the potential 5x multiplier from the Shifting Reels feature and you could win 5,000 x stake on each spin/free spin.

The likelihood of filling the reels with Robin Hood symbols for 3 or more continuous spins is highly unlikely. According to NetEnt, you can win up to 5,260 x stake from a series of spins which is pretty decent. Just don’t’ expect to trigger the Free Spins feature too regularly though but do expect good returns when you do.

I would also recommend you try NetEnt’s Gonzo’s Quest slot which also sees the multiplier increase with each win (Avalanche feature) – it can reach up to 15x in the Free Falls feature for wins of up to 37,500 x stake on each free spin.